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Tuesday May 15, 2007

Even though you can train injury-free but Marathon running is not risk-free.
Read how marathon running damages your heart.

I
participated in a study conducted by Dr Suzanne Miller of
Stanford University School of
Medicine Hospital on "The Effect of Endurance Exercise on the Cardiac
Function of Recreational versus Professional Athletes". She is quoted in the
article "If I saw them in the emergency department, I would tell them they had a
heart attack". It's scary, so read on!

Sunday May 13, 2007

With 10 more weeks remaining, finally started getting into long runs. And it
was a perfect weekend to start because I could not run pretty much the entire
week because of JavaOne. And I think it was not a bad start, but the runs are
going to get longer.

Sunday Apr 15, 2007

I did Rancho PG&E
this morning with 48:40 going up (starting from the first parking lot) and a
total timing of 1:19:23 (stopping at second parking lot). I started slow and
wasn't very happy with my performance but guess my clock showed otherwise But
I definitely need to do it more often in order to be prepared for the
upcoming marathon.

Over
and
over and
over, I've heard that tempo runs are the most essential runs to get faster
and stronger. So I've started running 20 minutes at a 30 seconds faster pace
twice a week. I've started with a short tempo run to begin with but will be
increasing the time/distance gradually. For now, I've already started feeling
the difference in a week but may be it's more psychological I'll report more
on this later.